Public Transportation Stops in The Netherlands

Eric Becker
Sept. 3rd, 2017

Introduction

As most countries, The Netherlands have a widespread network of public transportation facilities. Some characteristics:

  • There are about 10 transportation companies
  • some operate on a regional level, some on a national scale
  • Together they offer more than 55000 halting-places

The application

This is an application that aims to give the user insight in the geographical spread of the halting-places across the country.

  • Data is used from an open data source, available here
  • All data dates from Oct. 5, 2015
  • The application has been built with R Shiny, featuring an Esri style geographical map through Leaflet

Basic functionality

For performance reasons the application starts with an empty map. 51447